NOVEMBER 20TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

At 11.10 A.M. a steamer was seen to be aground on Robin Rigg Bank, about five miles north of Maryport. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Visibility was very bad. At 11.45 A.M. the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched and found the Swedish steamer Magne, of Stockholm., with a crew of twenty, aground and bumping heavily. She was loaded with iron ore. She had left a convoy at Liverpool, and eventually had anchored off Workington on the 19th November. A gale was blowing, and as it increased in force the Magne signalled for a pilot, but the signals were not seen. Then her cables parted and she began to drift northwards. In the darkness, and with no lights showing on land, the captain had no idea of his position. The anchor chains parted and the Magne went ashore at 5.20 A.M. the next morning. She was in shallow water, and the life-boat could not get alongside until the tide rose. Then the second-coxswain went on board. At high tide the Magne refloated and the second-coxswain piloted her through the maze of sandbanks to Workington. The life-boat returned to her station at 3.20 P.M. There a hot meal, prepared by local voluntary services, was awaiting the crew. - Rewards, £18 1s..